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TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1988
MOVED TO
THIS, MR MACLEOD STRESSED, DID NOT CEASED ΤΟ BE A MANUFACTURING/EXPORTING
MARKETING, CHINA, PROCESSES HAD REMAINED IN HONG KONG.
MEAN THAT
CENTRE.
HONG KONG HAD
WHILE
DESIGN
AND
SIMPLER MANAGEMENT
IN HONG KONG: MR MACLEOD LISTED THE ATTRACTIONS OF INVESTING
LACK GOOD COMMUNICATIONS, LOW TAX, STABLE AND PREDICTABLE GOVERNMENT, OF RED TAPE, TARIFFS AND 50 ON AND A HARD WORKING LABOUR FORCE.
HE SAID THE BEST PROSPECTS FOR INVESTMENT
ELECTRONICS, INDUSTRY.
METAL AND
HEAVY
ENGINEERING
TRADE
COULD BE FOUND IN AND IN THE ELECTRICAL
HE WAS SURE THAT BELGIUM, AS A LEADING MANUFACTURER AND TRADER, AND INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN COULD GREATLY BENEFIT FROM HONG KONG.
HOPED THAT THOSE WHO PRESSURE. TOUCHING RE STRESSED THAT
MR MACLEOD SAID HE FUTURE ON THE BELIEVED IN FREE TRADE COULD RESIST PROTECTIONIST ON HONG KONG'S BROADER ROLE IN TRADE AND ECONOMICS, HONG KONG WAS A GOOD MARKET IN ITS OWN RIGHT.
HONG KONG, HE POINTED OUT, COULD BOAST A HE HOPED THAT THOSE PRESENT WOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE MANUFACTURER, EXPORTER OR INVESTOR.
BUOYANT ECONOMY AND OF IT, WHETHER AS
AND DIPLOMATS,
MORE THAN 60 SENIOR INDUSTRIALISTS, FROM THE BELGIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION MEETING.
OFFICIALS
ATTENDED THE
RECEPTION WITH THE
BEFORE THE MEETING, MR MACLEOD ATTENDED A BELGIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN TRADE, MR ROBERT URBAIN.
WHO SERVED TRADE UNTIL MAY
ALSO PRESENT AT THE MEETING WAS MR HERMAN DE CROO, AS BELGIUM'S MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND FOREIGN OF THIS YEAR.
ALL
PATRONS OF THE PROMOTES BUSINESS
MR MACLEOD, MR URBAIN AND MR DE CROO ARE BELGIUM-HONG KONG SOCIETY, AN ASSOCIATION FORMED TO AND TRADING LINKS BETWEEN BOTH PLACES.
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